Things Fall Apart 2

The rest of Things Fall Apart took a strange turn and was not something I had expected. I think that Okonkwo's actions I believe are similar to that of Dickinson's in certain aspects. Both of them had extreme pressure from the society and situations in which they were living in. I guess that you could say that both of them ran from all of the pressure and other stuff that was happening to them, and they both took care of it in their own way. Dickinson wrote her poetry, which is still leaving an imprint years later, and Okonkwo tried to solve all of this pressures by taking his own life. The way that people's reactions can be so nonchalant because it is only one person, no matter how much that person may be affected; just like how the European man acted. I think it is sad that this is such a common way people deal with their problems and that so much of it is written down in a form of literature, yet people still seem to not do something different about it.